Sunday, January 4, 2004, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen writes:
> I would still guess that it is a web spider that got your address. > Many of the archives are immediate, and so it is possible a web > spider just happened to check the list archive web page several hours > after you posted. Spammers probably have their web spiders running at > all times. Or Usenet harvesting bots. This list is gated to the Usenet group linux.gentoo.user, carried now by most servers I suppose. It is pretty easy for a bot to XOVER the headers to get the From headers. A harvester could do the same with the Gmane server on which this list also appears as a newsgroup (gmane.linux.gentoo.user). Gmane does offer the option to obfuscate e-mail addresses, either on a per-post basis or for the whole list. See <http://gmane.org/tmda.php> for details. -- »Q« -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
